documentary recommendation–joan didion: the center will not hold
Quite a few students asked me about watching this 2017 Netflix documentary on Joan Didion. One of my favorite writers […]
Writer / Reader / Professor Lincoln Land College
Quite a few students asked me about watching this 2017 Netflix documentary on Joan Didion. One of my favorite writers […]
One of my favorite writers, activists and speakers. John Trudell: It has been, literally, the most blood thirsty, brutalizing system […]
Put together a quick listing of song titles I think work with each chapter of my book. Saw a few […]
Teaching a film as lit class this term and spending some time this week closely studying Joel and Ethan Coen’s […]
Highway driving this summer and enjoying the fairly new Code Switch podcast. I also enjoy the written articles posted on NPR […]
Episode 562 This American Life–The Problem We All Live With I’ve lived and taught in the Midwest for ten years now and […]
Peter J. Kuznick’s research translates well to this Oliver Stone directed series of hour-long documentaries. I found myself admiring the post-structuralism […]
I was interested to find this update on the Neruda exumation. Seems that he was not poisoned but family not […]
Went to the movies last week. I should’ve been grading or obsessing over the part time instructor evaluations I was […]
Happen to be reading through The Man With the Golden Arm this summer. Now news of Algren documentary. I’m looking forward […]
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick films. I mention The Shining in class quite often to my students and how it […]
Had some time to watch The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada this weekend. I’ve been meaning to watch more Latino […]
Just made a list of Latino-themed/focused films I’d like to re-watch and maybe write up a quick review for in the […]
Jacqueline “Jackie” Dougan Jackson is the author of over a dozen books, including three about the family dairy farm in […]
A few weeks back I typed up some notes from Amy Hempel’s workshop I attended. I found my notes on […]